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Comerong Island Beach
Comerong Island is a secluded beach which has excellent access for boating, fishing, windsurfing and kayaking. The Island Nature reserve runs the full length of the island and protects the largest remaining coastal rainforest on the south coast - an internationally recognised habitat for a range shore birds and waders. Great for bird watching! A car ferry to the island operates every day except for the second Tuesday of the month. Comerong is a wild and rugged South Pacific Ocean beach with great views of the mouth of the Crookhaven River and Mount Coolangatta in the north. Comerong was not always an island, in 1822 Alexander Berry, an early European Settler, was forced to sail up the Crookhaven River and haul his boat across the sandy spit separating it from the nearby Shoalhaven River. Berry left four men to cut a 200 metre passage across the sandbar - this took twelve days and was the first canal cut in Australia. The river has since been deepened and the canal widened, creating the Island. View Larger Map
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